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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820684503321

Autore

Newhouse David Locke

Titolo

The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy in Honduras / / David Locke Newhouse, Irene Yackovlev, Robert Gillingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-1947-5

1-4527-4504-8

1-4518-7026-4

1-282-84119-X

9786612841194

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (22 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/168

Altri autori (Persone)

YackovlevIrene

GillinghamRobert

Disciplina

336.2

Soggetti

Taxation - Honduras

Fiscal policy - Honduras

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Corporate Taxation

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Fiscal Policy

Business Taxes and Subsidies

Corporate & business tax

Income

Personal income

Consumption

Fiscal policy

Corporate income tax

Economics

Corporations

Taxation

Honduras



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Methodology; Data sources; Estimation of taxes and price subsidies; Estimation of other government benefits; Classifying variables; Tables; 1. Household Demographic Characteristics; III. The Incidence of Direct and Indirect Taxes; 2. Distribution of Consumption and Income; Direct taxes; 3. Tax Revenues by Type, 2004-2006; 4. Tax Rate Schedule; Indirect taxes; 5. Distribution of Personal and Corporate Income Taxes; IV. Distribution of Government Spending Programs and Implicit Subsidies; Subsidies and grants; 6. Distribution of Indirect Taxes

Government expenditure on health and education7. Distribution of Subsidies and Grants; 8. Distribution of MOH Health Spending; 9. Distribution of Education Spending; Pension systems; 10. Pension System Contribution Rates; V. Summary and Conclusions; 11. Distribution of Pension System Subsidies; 12. Distributional Effects of Fiscal Policy; Figures; 1. Income and Consumption by Income per Capita Quintile; Appendix; I. Effect of Classifying Households by Income per Capita; 2. Income and Consumption by Consumption per Capita Quintile

13. Distributional Effects of Fiscal Policy (Income per Capita Quintiles)3. Effect of Changing Classifying Variable on Means; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper uses household survey data to estimate the incidence of tax and spending programs in Honduras. Any such exercise is fraught with difficulty, so our simplifying assumptions are carefully explained. Rather than look at tax and spending completely independently, we evaluate net incidence of major programs-such as health care and pensions-to get a more holistic evaluation of redistribution. Our results show that fiscal policy is, on balance, progressive, but that there is room for significant improvement. In particular, energy subsidies, university education and public pension programs provide disproportionate benefits to higher-income households.